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HARMONICA HOLDER. No. 385,478. Patented July 8, 1888.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

N. P'ETERS, Phaloillhogmphi r. \Vnhingmn. v.0.

NITEU STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVILLIAM E. MULHOLLAN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

HARMONECA HQLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385A73, dated duty 3, 1888.

Serial X0. 260,860. (No model.)

To aZZ whono it 711/1151, concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MULIIOL- LAN, of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Month-Instrument Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improvement in mouth-instrument holders in which a clamp or catch for a harmonica or similar in strnment is mounted on a support provided with means for attaching it to the body of the musician.

The object of the improvement is to provide for a readier attaehability and detachability of the holder from the mnsieians body, and to secure a firmer and more convenient support for the instrument than has been heretol'ore attained.

The invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, hereinafter fully described, and dis tinctly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming av part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Fign re 1 is a perspective view illustrating a holder embodying my improvement supporting a harmonica, and indicating in dotted lines an adjustment of the same as a music-holder. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the said instrumentholder on a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a part hereinal'ter described.

The body 01 the music-holder is constructed ot a llat or nearly tlat plate, A, adapted to rest against the breast of the musician, and formed with a bottom cross strip, B, projecting from its opposite side edges, to which, near its ends, is attached a transverse strap, C, preferably by rivets D.

The strap 0 is of snliicient length to surround the chest of the wearer as a retaining band, and is provided with perforations and a buckle for adjusting it closely to his chest.

Thelower extremities of an inverted-pean shaped loop, E, preferably of stiff metal wire, are soldered or otherwise secured to, in this case, the back of the breast-plate A, and the upper closed end of the loop bent rearward, so as to surround the neck of the wearer as a collar, and thus easily uphold the breast-plate.

The face of the breastplatc A, which is thus firmly supported on the body 01' the wearer, is

provided with a projecting socket, F, for reception of the lower end of a detachable bent shank, G, carrying a catch or clamp, H, for removably holding a harmonica or other inoutlrinstrnment, which is thus supported in convenient position for playingdeaving the hands free to manipulate another instrument, as shown in Fig. 1.

Another bent shank, G, (shown in Fig. 3,) having a music catch or clamp, H, and adapted to the socket F, may be provided for use inlieu of the instrument-snpporting shank G, for holding music in convenient position for reading, asindicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, when perlorming on a date or other instrument requiring the hands for its support.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

.l. in a month-lustrement holder, the combination of a breast plate, adapted to support a shank having a catch or clamp, and a collar connected to the breastplate,snbstantially as described.

ln a mouthinstrnment holder, the combination of a llat or nearly [lat plate, adapted to support a shank having a catch or clamp, and astit't loop projecting from the edge 01' the plate, substantially as described.

3. In a mouth-instruinent holder, the combination of a llat plate, having a cross-strip projecting from opposite edges thereof, and a transverse strap attached to the cross-strip, substantially as described.

WILUAM .E. MULHOLLAW.

fitnesses:

B. F. Ronnnvs, .V. M. CAKE. 

